Scored by the people who work there.
We started Verified Culture because what it's really like to work somewhere almost never reaches the public without passing through a communications team first. Every score on this site comes from verified employees, answering the same 15 questions, with nobody editing in between.
Give every employee and customer a safe, anonymous way to say what something is really like — and have it count.
Workplaces and products judged by the people who live with them, not by the marketing around them.
Nothing edited, nothing bought. Every certificate comes out of a formula anyone can read and check.
How this got started.
It began with something anyone job-hunting notices: the loudest employer awards are the least believable, and the most honest employee reviews are the hardest to trust. The truth sits between the two, and nobody was publishing it.
So we worked with former HR leaders and worker-advocacy researchers to settle on 15 categories, wrote the scoring formula, and published it before a single review came in. It hasn't been quietly changed since.
Good or bad, every certificate carries the same code, the same verification page and the same maths behind it. If a workplace doesn't clear the bar, we say so. If it does, the staff earned it.
What we stand for
Six rules we don't bend, whatever the argument or whoever's asking.
No accounts, no tracking beyond stopping fraud. Nobody, including us, can trace a review back to a person.
The 15 things we score were chosen by employees and sense-checked by former HR leaders — not by a consultancy.
Every badge has a number, a code you can scan, and a published formula. Verify it from any phone, any time.
We publish poor results as readily as good ones. A badge that only ever says nice things isn't worth much.
No employer has ever paid for a placement, a removal or a better score, and none ever will.
Our formula is public and versioned. If someone works out a fairer one, we'll use it.
The places people warn their friends about should be written down somewhere public.
A fresh survey lets an employer move from Worst to Good — if the workforce agrees they've changed.
Good and Worst come out of the same formula. That's what makes either of them mean anything.
Voices from the system
"A badge we couldn't buy. Our own staff pushed us to earn it, and eventually we did."
"I trust the verdict because I can sit down and recalculate it myself."
"Three minutes, and I finally got to say something about a job I left two years ago."
Our journey
Too many 'best workplace' lists sold to the companies on them. The obvious fix: let the employees do the scoring.
Launched with 15 categories, certificates you can check by scanning, and public rankings by industry.
Employers can claim a Good badge; anyone rated Worst can ask for a fresh survey once they've made real changes.
The same approach applied to consumer and business products, scored across 10 categories.
Tell people what it's really like.
Under three minutes, no name attached, and anyone can check the result.